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Gertrude Herdle Letter Europe Quimper 7-7-1924

Gertrude Herdle Letter 1924

Quimper, Brittany,
July 7, 1924
Dearest Mommie and Ikie,
I have been giving things ample time to happen, you are probably saying, so you won't be surprised at the length of the tale which you now have before you. I know that there are numbers of letters from you awaiting me in Paris now, but I cannot have them until they are forwarded to me at Tours, down in the Chateaux-Country, and must be content with re-reading my last ones from you. So far you have been wonderfully faithful, and I beseech you to continue, for I want desperately to know how everything is with you, and just hang onto a word from home.
My, but we have been seeing and doing these past five days! After Norma arrived in Paris things began immediately to gather speed and I told you how I tried to show her the city both under and above ground in two days - also about my wonderful luncheon party with Miss Lawlor and M. Benedite and his daughter Rosa, how he took us through the Rodin Museum and told us many rare stories about Rodin's private life. But I didn't tell you, did I ? that he adopted me as his "petite confrere" and little colleague and introduced me to Dardet, one of the greatest of French modern sculptors. It was all quite wonderful. Also, the King of Abyssinia and his lengthy suite of black ware being entertained in the next room. Miss Lawlor is certainly my good angel, isn't she? I think that I shall have to spend my last days before sailing with her in Paris, for she has a number of interesting things to do for me, and I must visit her chateau, whose gardens are as lovely as the Tuileries.

Quimper, Brittany,
July 7, 1924
Dearest Mommie and Ikie,
I have been giving things ample time to happen, you are probably saying, so you won't be surprised at the length of the tale which you now have before you. I know that there are numbers of letters from you awaiting me in Paris now, but I cannot have them until they are forwarded to me at Tours, down in the Chateaux-Country, and must be content with re-reading my last ones from you. So far you have been wonderfully faithful, and I beseech you to continue, for I want desperately to know how everything is with you, and just hang onto a word from home.
My, but we have been seeing and doing these past five days! After Norma arrived in Paris things began immediately to gather speed and I told you how I tried to show her the city both under and above ground in two days - also about my wonderful luncheon party with Miss Lawlor and M. Benedite and his daughter Rosa, how he took us through the Rodin Museum and told us many rare stories about Rodin's private life. But I didn't tell you, did I ? that he adopted me as his "petite confrere" and little colleague and introduced me to Dardet, one of the greatest of French modern sculptors. It was all quite wonderful. Also, the King of Abyssinia and his lengthy suite of black ware being entertained in the next room. Miss Lawlor is certainly my good angel, isn't she? I think that I shall have to spend my last days before sailing with her in Paris, for she has a number of interesting things to do for me, and I must visit her chateau, whose gardens are as lovely as the Tuileries.